The Travelers of the Heavens

In September of the fifth year of Chongning in the Great Zhou Empire (the fifth year of Jiaqing in the Chongji period, 1800 AD), Wang Yu personally led the fleet of the Great Zhou Empire to anchor in Hong Kong.

"You don’t mean to say that we are here just to help that emperor put down the rebellion, right?" Chi Lian, who came with the army, sat on the side of the ship and talked to Wang Yu nonchalantly.

"I have my own plan, you will understand" Wang Yu said

"Well, a vicious plan is about to be born again," Chi Lian said.

"Isn't this just what you like, you poisonous snake?" Wang Yu laughed and scolded Chi Lian.

Don't mention it, Chi Lian was quite happy when Wang Yu said she was a poisonous snake.

"His Highness's plan is perfect. Those big braids must be very willing to ask you to help them put down the rebellion." Chu Bufan flattered Wang Yu wildly. He is one of the few people who knows the entire plan.

"If it weren't for taking care of your so-called feelings, I would plant that thing in this rotten and smelly place." Wang Yu turned to look at Chu Bufan and said.

The"thing" in his mouth was naturally extracted from a plant. People are addicted to food, and it is very difficult to give up in this life. This is not explained here.

"Your Highness is considerate of your subordinates, and I am deeply grateful," Chu Bufan said.

"This place has nothing to do with your hometown, why do you have to worry about them?" Wang Yu said

"But I always feel that its suffering is too severe, and I can’t bear it," Chu Bufan explained.

"I hope your intolerance will not affect our future plans," Wang Yu warned.

"Don't worry, I will resolutely carry out your orders in the future," Chu Bufan promised.

Wang Yu listened but did not respond.

"Bai Feng, send my handwritten letter to the Governor's Mansion." Wang Yu wrote a letter in Manchu and called Bai Feng to deliver the letter.

""Yes." Bai Feng took the letter and was about to leave.

"Do you recognize the Governor's Palace?"Wang Yu joked again

"I've already seen the map." After Bai Feng finished speaking, he stepped away in the air.

Guangdong Province, the Governor's Mansion. Bai Feng flew through the sky, stuck a silver thorn on the letter and threw it into the courtyard of the Governor's Mansion, and then he disappeared in the courtyard of the Governor's Mansion.

The officers and soldiers of the Governor's Mansion did not dare to neglect the letter when they picked it up, and sent it to the main hall to Ji Qing, the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong. This

Ji Qing was a Manchu and a member of the distant branch of Aixinjueluo. In the first year of Jiaqing (AD 1796) was promoted to governor of Guangdong and Guangdong. He should be a person whom Emperor Jiaqing trusted very much.

Since Jiqing was a Manchu, he could understand Wang Yu's letters written in Manchu, but he did not dare to open them because the letter on the envelope was written in Manchu. It was written with the words personally signed by the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Ji Qing did not dare to delay, so he immediately sent another 800-mile express to deliver the letter to the capital and handed it over to

Emperor Jiaqing. Guangdong and Guangdong are very far away from the capital, and even the 800-mile express messenger could not He had to run for a while, so Wang Yu did not wait passively. He decided to send a regiment of troops to land on a small boat with small cannons to occupy a landing site and then support the follow-up troops and horses ashore.

As a force fighting outside the territory, the Kyushu New Army has an organizational structure Similar to the modern army.

The troop organization from high to low is: corps, corps, division, brigade, regiment, battalion, company, team (equivalent to the platoon in the modern army) squad.

A squad of the Kyushu New Army has fifteen people; A team has four squads with a total of 60 people; a company has five teams with a total of 300 people; a battalion has five companies with a total of 1,500 people; a regiment has four battalions with a total of 6,000 people; A division has three regiments with a total of 18,000 people; a corps has four divisions with a total of 72,000 people; a corps is not a permanent combat unit, and a corps has three to four corps with a number of 20 to 30 people. Between 10,000 people.

As an independent combat unit, the brigade generally has two infantry regiments with a total of 12,000 people.

In addition, starting from the brigade-level combat unit, the army has a heavy artillery unit, and the heavy artillery unit is also the standard of the Kyushu New Army. Equipped with. An artillery company has twelve heavy artillery (105 mm and above caliber artillery); an artillery battalion has four artillery batteries with a total of forty-eight heavy artillery; an artillery regiment has two artillery battalions with a total of ninety-six heavy artillery.

Above It is the basic combat organization and does not include the logistics units of each unit. If non-combat units such as logistics and communications are included, the scale of each unit will be even larger. As time goes by and the world changes, there will also be armor, etc. , air defense and other combat units, the size of the army will further expand by then.

Back to the subject. This time, the 25,000 Kyushu soldiers brought by Wang Yu were organized into two brigades, but they only carried four heavy artillery. This kind of breech loading The 105mm barrel annealing cannon is very heavy and can only be towed by Kirin horses, which are much better than ordinary BMWs. It takes ten horses to tow a 105 heavy cannon. It also has to walk a distance and rest for a period of time. The marching speed It can’t be faster. As for the artillery tractor, we feel that it is not the time to come out yet.

The other ninety-six army artillery carried this time are all small and medium-sized breech-mounted annealing guns with a caliber of 50 to 75 mm. Compared with the above-mentioned 105 heavy artillery , they are much lighter.

Wang Yu sent a regiment of about 6,000 men and horses carrying five small artillery pieces and sailed to the shore in small boats in batches.

Such a large-scale landing operation attracted the attention of the two Guangdong naval divisions, and they dispatched rice boats and Catch the shuttle boat in an attempt to intercept.

The two sides began to exchange fire. The Kyushu soldiers skillfully pressed bullets into the receiver and then pulled the bolt to load and fire. The dense bullets killed and injured many Qing navy officers and soldiers.

In addition, the army artillery carried by the Dazhou fleet also began to fire at the Qing navy, and soon sank three rice boats and three shuttle boats. At the same time, the Dazhou fleet began to shell the Qing navy parked on the shore. Soon the naval dock was covered by the smoke screen of the bombardment, and the Qing navy suffered all losses.

After solving this trouble, the infantry of the Kyushu New Army began to land one after another, and small boats went back and forth to pick up soldiers and equipment.

After seizing the dock, some smaller warships began to dock, and heavy artillery and draft horses were also unloaded on the dock.

Two days later, more than 20,000 people from the Kyushu New Army landed ashore and occupied some of the Qing's coastal defense fort positions.

When the news came out, Guangdong and Guangdong were shocked.

Ji Qing did not expect that these"foreigners" would be so arrogant and unreasonable. He could only mobilize green battalions from Guangdong and Guangdong to besiege the beachhead in an attempt to recapture the lost fort pier.

Humen Fort, temporary headquarters of the Zhou Empire’s Nine Provinces New Army

"Your Highness, there is news from the front that more than 10,000 enemy green soldiers are surrounding me from two directions." Chu Bufan received the report and he and Wang Yu relayed it

""Haha, after all, this is the Kingdom of Heaven. They don't take us seriously. They just want to defeat us with more than 10,000 people. Don't you think this Governor is so silly and cute?" Wang Yu said with a smile.

"Ha ha"Hearing this, Chu Bufan, Chi Lian and others also laughed at Ji Qing for not overestimating his abilities.

"Chi Lian, haven't you always wanted to try the musket? Now you have an opportunity. I'll give you a regiment of troops. You go to the front and hit me when the enemy gets close. Don't save bullets for me, but when you hit Don't pursue the enemy after retreating," Wang Yu said to Chi Lian

"Okay, I'll go right away." Chi Lian ran to the forward position. Behind her were two Kyushu soldiers, one of whom was carrying a large long wooden box.

"Your Highness, will our undeclared war cause a strong backlash from the Qing Dynasty?" Chu Bufan asked

"Do you think this is a tough country?"Wang Yu asked back

"I think Emperor Jiaqing is just fine," Chu Bufan said.

"When the master is powerless, the slaves will completely lose morale and eventually develop into a great rout; this country is destined to never see a figure like Yue Fei again, and I will not allow Yue Fei to appear among them," Wang Yu said

"What His Highness said is absolutely true." Chu Bufan nodded.

On the frontline

""Give me the gun." Chi Lian reached out to the soldier beside him.

""Yes." The soldier carrying the wooden box opened the wooden box.

Another soldier took out a well-made bolt-action rifle and a cylinder-like object from the wooden box.

The soldier installed the cylinder-like object on the rifle, and then loaded it on the rifle. Good bullets and handed them to Chi Lian

""Hmm." Chi Lian took the rifle and pulled the bolt to load it.

She raised the rifle and leaned her right eye on the cylinder to aim. It turned out that this rifle was a sniper rifle specially made by Chu Bufan for Chi Lian. Of course, it was also a sniper rifle made by Chi Lian. Lian learned about the sniper rifle from Chu Bufan and asked for it by name.

Chi Lian learned a lot about modern military theory and weapons from Chu Bufan, and this also laid the foundation for her to follow or even command the corps in combat in the future. Preliminary theoretical basis.